Antonyms for back-number
| Grammar : Adj |
Definition of back-number
- As in behind the times : adj not current
- As in old hat : adj overfamiliar
- He had judged Dunwoodie old, back-number, living in the past.
- Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
- No scoutin' around for back-number restaurants, as I'd planned at first.
- Extract from : « Torchy and Vee » by Sewell Ford
- I had never even seen a bomb before, and always associated them with the playful humor of the now back-number anarchist.
- Extract from : « Fighting the Boche Underground » by Harry Davis Trounce
- He understands the business as none of us back-number, old-fashioned ones do; he took hold and shook some life into it.
- Extract from : « The Flying Mercury » by Eleanor M. Ingram
- He smiled wanly and asked for his mail, which consisted only of a pile of back-number copies of a newspaper.
- Extract from : « Land of the Burnt Thigh » by Edith Eudora Kohl
- I wish tasteless, conventional, and machine-made architecture were as much of a "back-number" in England as it is here.
- Extract from : « America To-day, Observations and Reflections » by William Archer
- It was written in Thompson's careful, back-number copperplate, perhaps not so careful as usual, but his unmistakably.
- Extract from : « The La Chance Mine Mystery » by Susan Carleton Jones
- There were three for Marcia, and one—in old Thompson's back-number copperplate—for Dudley.
- Extract from : « The La Chance Mine Mystery » by Susan Carleton Jones
- Those men haven't got any use for a back-number old place like this.
- Extract from : « The Copy-Cat and Other Stories » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Synonyms for back-number
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